Annual first registrations for five major car powertrains; vehicles, 2019–2025.
Five major UK new-car powertrains are tracked annually from 2019 to 2025. Each line uses cars registered for the first time in the calendar year, with petrol and diesel variants combined within the hybrid groups. Battery-electric registrations rise from 38,007 in 2019 to 473,225 in 2025, a 12.5-fold increase. Diesel moves in the opposite direction, falling from 622,089 to 95,838 over the same period.
Source 1: Vehicle licensing statistics data files
Publisher: UK Department for Transport and DVLA
Dataset/table: First vehicle registrations by body type, make, model and fuel
Units: vehicle registrations
Date checked: 2026-07-14
Evidence: Supports the five annual car-powertrain series from 2019 through 2025.
Values count first registrations rather than the entire licensed car stock. Smaller residual fuel types are excluded from the five-series comparison but remain in the full annual car total.
The model-level data are filtered to cars and summed to calendar-year totals. Fuel records are combined into the same five powertrain definitions for each year before the common-period series are constructed.
All five series use one DfT-DVLA source, the same 2019–2025 calendar periods, car universe and registration unit.
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